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Schweitzer Ski Resort in northern Idaho a couple weeks after the end of the season. There was music playing in the shops but no one there. Creepy.
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I'm going to stop using the 2x converter, I think the camera doesn't focus as well with it on, and yes I have the focus locked to inf...

The Haliköy mine (Izmir, Turkey) produced 2000 tons of mercury by roasting or calcining at 600 oC rocks excavated from the underground mine that contained the mercury sulphide mineral cinnabar. The evaporated mercury was condensed in flasks, the sulfur oxide gasses were let off into the atmosphere and the burnt-out ro...

Panorama towards the west while standing on old caramic waste. In fron the blakc smelter slag that is covered by flotation tailings waste. In the distance the ruins of the 19th century 'French' ore processing plant and ore concentration plant uphill.

The southernmost part of the abandoned Balya Pb-Zn-sulfide mining site is characterized by deposits of tailings that have partly been excavated and recycled. The area could be cleaned and used for construction of a new disposal site for mining waste.